The Personality of Power

The Personality of Power

A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

  • Autor: Massumi, Brian
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • Col·lecció: Thought in the Act
  • ISBN: 9781478060543
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2025
  • Mes: Febrer
  • Pàgines: 312
  • Idioma: Anglés
“I am the Chosen One!” With this exclamation Donald Trump crowns the national exceptionalism his base upholds with a claim of personal exceptionalism. He leaves no doubt as to the emotional note: “I am your vengeance!” He personifies reaction for the masses. Except, in today’s microsegmented social media environment the “masses” no longer exist. Fascism’s cultural conditions have shifted. In The Personality of Power, Brian Massumi retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Trump’s persona. Older theories based on identification of the masses with a charismatic leader no longer hold. Rather, an affective regime of reaction agitates bodies and orients lives at the molecular level. Massumi examines this agitation in relation to race, gender, personhood, and conspiracy thinking. The Personality of Power is a political treatise on fascism and its precursor movements, coupled with a philosophical inquiry into becoming reactionary as a collective process. Massumi calls the very concept of the person into question, asking what collective personhood means concretely. Nothing less than an alternative political logic is needed, turned to the task of thinking collective individuation.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Part 1. Trumping the Personality of Power
    • The “F”-Word
    • This Book
    • The Decline and Rise of the Personality of Power
    • Who Decides?
    • Collective Individuation
    • Beyond the Interpersonal
    • Accidents of Persons
    • Media Figure, Distributed Event
    • Along Comes Trump
    • Miraculation
    • Are You an Act?
    • The Reign of the Self-Knockoff
    • Ornamental Masculinity
    • Affective Adjunction
    • License
    • Man-Standard, Standard Man
    • Becoming-Away from Man
    • Freedom
    • Deciding in the Exception
    • Fringe Fluidity
    • Rallying Affect
    • Conditions for War
    • Free Indirect Discourse
    • The Expansive Collapse of the First Person
    • The Storm of Unknowing
    • Trump Machine
  • Part 2. Multiple Persons in Joint Possession
    • Personhood Revisited
    • The Piety of the Personal
    • An Individual Is a Wave
    • Character
    • Society All the Way Up (and Down)
    • Common Likeness, Reconsidered
    • A Person Is a General Idea
    • Index and Event
    • Word and Event
    • Genetic Element, Abductive Impingement
    • Machinic Synthesis
    • Spanning the General
    • Levels
    • Collective Singular
    • An Idea Is a Little Person
    • Class-Naming the Collective Singular
    • Corporate Persons
    • Multiple Persons in Joint Possession
    • My Non-I
    • Strange Intruders
    • Thought the Thinker
    • Commind
    • Recap
    • Why?
  • Part 3. The Full Body and I
    • The Full Body Retooled
    • Figuring the Full Body
    • Schizzing the Structure of Society
    • Point-Sign
    • Umbral Union
    • Body Matter
    • Individual and Person
    • Micrologic and Amplification
    • Individualization
    • Scale and Dimension
    • Dividuation
    • Overcoding
    • Figural, Figurative, Figure
    • Affect and Intensities
    • Emotion
    • Signed, Affect
    • Resonating Chamber
    • Adjunction/Induction
    • Differential Attunement
    • Media Figure
    • The Man-Standard Again (and Again)
    • The Personification of Capital
    • Recap
    • Why?
  • Part 4. Error Incarnate
    • The Personification of Capital, Reflux
    • Error Incarnate
    • The Literal
    • Optive Matter
    • Perspective
    • Recap
    • Why?
  • Part 5. The Regime of Reaction
    • Passion and Reaction
    • Adequate Ideas
    • From the Singular to the Singular-Universal
    • Uses and Abuses of the General
    • The Sting of the Normal
    • The Politics of Logic
    • The Logico-Politics of Resemblance
    • Signs Behaving Badly
    • The Understory: The Belief from Below
    • Conspiracy Brewing
    • Desire
    • Generalization upon Generalization, Belief upon Belief
    • Vague Presences
    • Association Unbound
    • Note on the Imagination
    • Belief Trumps Intent
    • Modes of Capture
    • Accidents of Persons Predisposed
    • The Pathic Is the Pivot
    • Faciality
    • Ressentiment
    • Fascisizing Tendencies
    • Micro-fascisms
    • A Turning Point?
    • Fascism Proper
    • Diagnosing
    • Ur-Fascism and the Question of Typology
    • The Economization of Hate
    • Stupidity
    • Flash Agents
    • Relay Agents
    • Belief in the Event
  • Postscript. Distinctions of Distinction: For a Logic of Mutual Inclusion
    • Identity
    • Distinctions of Distinction
    • Modal Distinction
    • Real Distinction
    • Umbral Union
    • Mutual Inclusion
    • Modal Metaphysics
    • Formal Distinction
    • Duality without Dualism
    • Strategic Abstract Generalism
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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    • C
    • D
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